By Ruth aka Kattaddorra
Following my earlier article: The Santa Paws Foundation…I was wondering how everyone is getting on with filling their boxes.
Babz and I have just realised with a shock how close Christmas is now and although we had the empty boxes ready that’s as far as we got!
So, today with the help of Walter and Jozef as Babz is at work, I made a start and covered the boxes with pretty paper.
Then we looked in their toy box and found quite a lot of brand new unused toys, our cats seem to prefer their well chewed tatty old toys lol
So with their permission I put them aside. We then tackled their food cupboard and sorted out the sachets and trays they’ve gone off eating, we all know how choosy cats can be and how they can suddenly decide they don’t like a brand, or a flavour, after all.
Babz and I have planned and budgeted for this month’s coming pay day, the last before Christmas, to buy some big tins of cat food to fill the boxes, we’ve been researching where to get the most for our money.
Our Cats Protection branch and Kays Hill cattery will no doubt appreciate the food and now today I heard that Ark on the Edge are struggling with lots of cats too, so we feel that we must try to help them also.
What is it with so many people relinquishing their cats? How does their conscience let them do that? Do they not give a thought to the struggling Rescue Shelters having more and more mouths to feed?
I couldn’t sit and eat my Christmas dinner if I thought our cats were sitting in a Shelter wondering why they had lost their home and family. I’d move Heaven and Earth to keep our cats where they belong.
On a brighter note, Walter and Jozef said they’d sing a little ditty for the poster:
‘We wish you a merry Christmas
We wish you a merry Christmas
We wish you a merry Christmas
And a happy New Year’
But I used bit of poetic licence when I suddenly remembered as a small child longing for a cat of my own,I always sang the last line of that as:
‘And I hope your cats purr’
Crazy cat child and now crazy cat woman lol
This is Edith the 2nd, full of cat food a kind lady took in to Babz office today.
Isn’t she just perfect with a cat motif too lol
It was a great idea and I did just the one big box that they could all share 🙂 Yours look lovely 🙂
Can’t believe you’ve done so many boxes! well done.
Two elderly ladies make the blankets and take in to Babz, there were three but sadly Stella died this year, she was Marion’s (Cats Protection) husband’s auntie, a lovely lady, she used to come to our charity Coffee Mornings too, we all miss her. Also a neighbour’s elderly mother knits 4 inch squares by the dozen lol and Babz has the task of stitching them together. I’m a terrible sewer is my excuse lol It makes the knitters feel useful and it’s much appreciated of course by the Sanctuaries especially now in the cold weather.
Yes it feels very good, I know it’s said you have to be able to receive as well as to give and if we ever receive we are grateful but there’s nothing as satisfying as the feeling of giving, of sharing what you have, is there 🙂 Dee I’m sure your boxes are lovely and will be much appreciated, I very much admire you for making so many.
Here they are Dee, when you see them together they’re not really alike at all